anak ng…

lucas: kumusta compre mo?

jacqui: ayos lang.  the actual exam was nakakatamad but the studying and preparing was not a problem.  ganun talaga kasi if during your coursework you study constantly, just keep doing what you have to do, and if you’re really into it…

mom: ya you retain everything

lucas: pinariringgan mo ba ako?

jacqui: bato bato sa langit

lucas: tagos sa laman

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seen on luigi sim’s t-shirt: take me drunk, i’m home

seen on jayke ang’s t-shirt: my girlfriend is out of town

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jackie castillejo: bata, anong favorite food mo?

efren reyes: isda.  yung may tinik.

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jacqui: peter, ba’t wala sila alvin?

peter aquitana: huwag mo nang itanong sa akin.  di ko rin naman sasabihin. 

altogether now — huwag mo nang itanong sa akin at di ko na iisipin fieldtrip sa may pagawaan ng lapis ay katulad ng buhay natin isang mahabang pilang mabagal at walang katuturan ewan ko hindi ko alam puwede bang huwag nalang nating pag-usapan…

btw, my favorite e-heads song is ligaya

i’ve once again been told that i looked like foolish heart nina.  buti sana kung "sound like" mas ma-appreciate ko pa.  alam mo naman tayo nangangarap maging songer hehe. 

other stuff people tell/ask me over and over and over again:

"parang tumataba ka."

"so who are you rooting for, lasalle or ateneo?"

"how many hours today?" [have i spent working on my thesis] -dr. robles

"magtuturo ko nang ganyan ang suot mo?!" -lucas and joelle

"huy sayaw ka naman sa [all kindsa events]."

"miss could you repeat the question?" -my students

"o jacqui kumusta klase?" -dr. decastro

"JACQUI!!!" [wala lang] -dr. decastro

"set-up kita!"

"come with me i’ll show you something." -daniella

"ba’t ba palagi mo nalang akong inaaway?" -lucas

"are you twins?" [referring to me and my sister who's 4 years older]

–can you guess which twin is which in the picture?

"jac!  gulay." -dad

[whenever i ask for coke at a restaurant or store] "lite?"

will add more when i remember

yesterday i took my first ballet class in almost a month.  stopped taking class for a while coz, aside from a hundred other reasons, my left hip/groin is giving me problems again.  i probably overstretched it or something.  i think i didn’t warmup properly and then hurt it doing a relevelade en a la second?  it used to just bother me in the sense that my left leg extensions were lower and much weaker than my right.  and i always felt as if something were blocking the free movement of my left leg.  but what used to be a mere discomfort is now i believe a full-blown injury.  i’m exaggerating of course.  well i hope i am.  i mean yesterday in class i could do everything naman, all the exercises and steps, EXCEPT i couldn’t hold my left leg up to the side above 90degrees.  pathetic.  and super saket.  ika nga ng nakasabay ko sa william hall elevator kanina: "tsong di lang basta ‘ouch’, mapapa-’ARAY!’ ka talaga."

my theory is that since i quit pbt and have gotten out of shape, the muscles supporting my hipjoints have grown weaker.  so things i could easily do before i  cannot do and should not expect to do anymore now that i’m a slacker.  such as pulling my leg up to my ear whenever i feel like it. 

a negative externality [bombit largoza i hope i'm doing your intecon class justice and using this term correctly] of this whole thing is my old ankle injury is coming back.  parang kinalawang from not using it for a long time.  it’s nothing serious really, it’s just my landings/tombes/fondues are not as secure.  i should do what dakota fanning does in her movie uptown girls -execute 200 plies everyday.  maybe i can ask my dad to install a barre in my room…

actually there’s only one thing to do, and that’s keep taking class. as regular as possible. 

some scary stalker dude took my picture at the grocery today. i’d already noticed him early on. you know how people act weird and look at you weird when they’re up to something? ayun ganun siya. at mahirap din hindi siya mapansin coz he looked like ronnie rickets. not that he was cute or anything. nakita ko na kasi si ronnie rickets in person once sa star olympics. guwapo at malaking tao. konyotiks. but this guy was jologs and feeling cute lang and kinda short. i guess it was the semi-longhair tucked under a cap look. baka idol niya si april boy but he’s not quite there yet -acheche demoted, from ronnie rickets to april boy.

i was at the softdrinks section when it all went down. i was alone coz my family was already at the cashier and since i wanted coke to go with the chips i had at home then i had to run back to the refrigerators to get some. i remember seeing the guy on my way but i didn’t realize he was following me na pala. when i picked up my cokes biglang i heard the sound of a snapshot being taken. i turned a bit to see him kunwari checking out the other stuff on display. i’m not paranoid, i know what happened. and yikes. super yikes.

kunwari i wasn’t affected or i didn’t notice nalang but i was freaking out the entire time i was walking back to the cashier. was thinking ang tanga naman puwede naman i-silent yung pagkuha ng picture sa phone. takutin ba talaga ako. and what the hell was he taking a picture of?! sana naman my head, like my profile or my hair coz he liked my natural hair color and wanted to have it gaya at the salon -nyek bading pala! but then he would’ve had to hold his phone up in a very obvious way to take the picture. kung lower parts of my body… baka he liked my new bass slippers? or my denim skirt? hala! was he taking a picture of my legs?!? hmmm. ok lang maganda naman legs ko -kapal!

this is why i don’t like going around by myself. hassle to be bothered that way. actually even when i’m not alone it still happens, like when i’m with my ballet friends let’s say. when i was still with pbt, we’d walk to macdonald’s across the street or to galleria and there would be at least five cars from which guys would stick their head out of the window to heckle us. i guess guys just have nothing better to do with their spare time than harrass wawa girls. anyway i’m lucky my harrassers have all been harmless so far, mga hanggang "hi miss" at "can i get your phone number" lang. sana hanggang ganun lang. ronnie rickets look-alike wherever you are sana maganda kuha mo saken at nang hindi mo i-delete at hindi sayang ang abala hayup ka.

i finally know what stonefree looks like!  i found out such a band exists about a month ago when they were featured on rt sunday sessions.  di naman ako nakikinig ng rt -except when i’m in erica’s car coz parang that’s manong george’s station.  i’m an rj girl see?  anyways i was looking for some more mainstream uso music that night at natuwa ako sa kuwentuhang nagaganap sa rt so i kept to that station and tuned in for the rest of the show. 

ok naman stonefree.  and they sound like they’re nice to their fans.  importante saken yun eh.  nabubuwisit ako sa mga musikero na anti-social -heller why don’t you just play your music in the banyo where nobody can hear.  stonefree was very patient answering stupid questions and accomodating leche callers.  i think that kinda made the interview parts fun to listen to din. 

pero since di ko nga sila kilala -ganun talaga pag nakakulong sa classroom ng umaga at sa studio ng buong hapon at gabi, you really lose touch of the world particularly of pop culture- i couldn’t help but associate the voices i was hearing on the radio with people i knew.  actually mainly yung frontman lang kasi siya yung maraming sinasabi.  i have a student this term, jose lean(dro), he’s a small kid, payatot, moreno, medyo tumatayo buhok kahit hindi naka-gel, he wears the usual jeans and t-shirt, choker and tons of puerto galera bracelets, he also wears glasses but he totally does not look like a geek or a nerd.  i swear bigyan mo ng gitara mukhang authentic may-banda.  or drumsticks kaya.  he sits in the last row and he doesn’t talk much.  whenever i call on him to recite he bows down his head kunwari searching his notes and textbook for the answer but actually natataranta siya and is just hoping that i call on someone else.  since the vocalist of stonefree sounded mahiyain and soft-spoken and they said that he’s not a very tall person daw, i’m sorry but yung student ko na yun agad naisip ko. 

so the entire time i was listening to that sunday session, i was imagining that lean was the one talking.  and when i’d see him in class natatawa talaga ako.  kawawang bata, minsan nga napapag-initan ko kasi natutuwa nga ako sa idea.  and he doesn’t have a clue.  but i think it works to his advantage din coz i give him more attention?  bad teacher, playing favorites haha.  but he’s a good kid naman talaga. 

lucky for lean!!!  i just saw a stonefree video on mtv.  nyek, the vocalist does not look like lean at all.  and the rest of the band don’t look like how i imagined they would either.  pero at least naliwanagan na ako.  although i’m still trying to convince myself that those guys are the real stonefree and that lean’s the fake.  medyo mahirap.  siguro i should watch more tv.